FULLERTON — A retired administrator was stabbed to death Monday morning at Cal State Fullerton, with police deploying bloodhounds to try and track down the suspect.

The victim, a man of Asian ethnicity in his late 50s, was found with multiple stab wounds inside a gray car in Parking Lot S at College Place and Langsdorf Drive. He was working as a consultant at the university.

No motive for the killing was known.

Lt. Jon Radus, of the Fullerton Police Department, said the suspect seemed to have targeted the victim.

“We don’t believe there is an active stabber on the loose at this point,” the lieutenant said.

The incident was reported at about 8:30 a.m.

At the scene of a homicide at @csuf. Detectives are investigating a dark gray car parked, possibly that of victim, in front of a campus building on Langsdorf Drive. pic.twitter.com/EB3R66GUNo

The city Police Department was handling the investigation in the 600 block of Langsdorf Drive.

Bloodhounds were out, trying to sniff out the trail of the suspect, who was seen on foot going east on Nutwood Avenue toward the 57 Freeway overpass. He was described as an Asian man in his mid-twenties with black hair and wearing black pants and a black shirt.

The university is not in session yet for students, but the building near the crime scene was open and mostly holds administrative offices.

Third-year student David Velazquez was just about to leave his campus job when he got a text alert about an assault.

“I saw it and my first thought was, ‘Uh, oh’,” he said. “I kind of assumed it was a student at first.”

The 19-year-old political science major and his roommate were planning on going shopping to buy things for their new apartment. They drove and encountered part of the street taped off and police everywhere.

Velazquez said the attack and police response reminded him of reports of school shootings elsewhere. Coincidentally, campus police had planned an active-shooter drill on campus for Monday.

Even though police have said there is no public threat, Velazquez said the incident is still jarring.

“Something like this makes me more alert that something worse could happen,” he said.

Alma Fausto is a crime, breaking news and public safety reporter for the Register. She has worked for the Register since 2013. Previously, she lived in New York City while studying at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism where she covered the growing Mexican immigrant population in the city. Alma has also lived and studied in California’s rural and agricultural Central Valley. She’s an Orange County native from Costa Mesa, and in her spare time likes to read, visit libraries and drink good gin.